[Cover page] "The Darkies Rally" (1863)
[Title page: "De Darkie's Rally"]
Song & Chorus
[Words and Music]
by
W. W. Partridge.

Cleveland: S. Brainard & Co.
New York: W. A. Pond & Co.
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker
Boston: H. Tolman & Co.
T. Sinclair's Lith., Phila.
Plate No. 1486 3
[Source: LL-SSM-2-406-0008-01@Indiana]

1. Old massa Linkum he’m de man,
Tur break up dat ole wicked clan,
Who tink no riights to Nig’s belong
But lib a slave de whole life long.

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
Den come on all ye Darkies unto Massa Linkum’s camp,
Whar we’re all bound to go,
And we’ll meet our ole Massas an we’ll conquer dem or die,
Dat we must do you know;
We are all fur de Union ob Norf and Soufern States,
But not hab de Union like it had been before;
Hab a Union ob freedom ober all our blessed lan,
But wid slavery no more.

2. De wuck’d us hard and paid us naught,
Our children dear, dey sole an bought,
Our wifes dey tore from our embrace,
And doom’d us to a brutal race.

3. De bound us down wid cruel might,
Wid wicked force dey held our right,
But tank de Lord, for peace we see,
We Darkie’s all will soon be free.

4. “De year of Jubilee hab come,”
When we shall hab a freeman’s home;
Den let us rally wid our might,
“An strike for freedom an our right.”

5. An when our massas conquer’d are,
An we wid dem our freedom share,
We’ll work for dem for paynot fear,
And keep our wives an children dear.